Tag Archives: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr.

Although a father claims the parties’ PSA allowed him to reduce child support after he left his overseas assignment with a private defense contractor in Iraq, the Court of Appeals upholds a trial court judgment that PSA’s support modification provision ...

A decision by the Virginia State Health Commissioner to deny the application of a Petersburg hospital for a Certificate of Public Need to establish an open heart surgery service is upheld by the Court of Appeals; the record supports the ...

The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s jury trial conviction and 20-year sentence for grand larceny by embezzlement of a truck he scrapped for $175 after failing to pay a car dealer $1,120 as agreed; defendant waived his objections to informing ...

The commission did not err in refusing to take action against employer after it paid a portion of claimant’s settlement of his workers’ comp claim directly to the Department of Child Support Enforcement, the Court of Appeal says. Claimant owed ...

A defendant cannot overturn revocation of his suspended sentence on the ground that the earlier period of suspension had been improperly extended at a previous sentencing for a probation violation in 1998; the Court of Appeals rejects defendant’s collateral attack ...

An employer is not liable for medical payments for a claimant’s heart bypass surgery, as his cardiac condition was coincidentally discovered as claimant was being evaluated for surgery for his work-related right-sided inguinal hernia that resulted from claimant’s attempt to ...

On the commonwealth’s appeal, the Court of Appeals reverses the trial court’s pretrial order suppressing defendant’s admission of theft after his arrest and remands for a new trial. A Dollar General Store employee called 911 after he believe he observed ...

The Court of Appeals reverses and remands a majority decision of the commission denying benefits to a correctional officer injured stepping down from a raised chair; the commission applied an inapposite analysis comparing the raised chair to stairs when another ...

The Court of Appeals reverses the trial court’s equitable distribution award as to a residence, car and investment fund; wife failed to prove significant personal efforts substantially increased the home’s value and remand is necessary for a determination of the ...

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a father’s parental rights to his three small children, based on sufficient evidence to support findings of abuse and neglect by the father. Father is correct in his primary position that, consistent with ...